2018 Malaysia FA Cup final

2018 Malaysia FA Cup final
	The match programme cover
Event	2018 Malaysia FA Cup
Date	7 July 2018 (2018-07-07)
Venue	Bukit Jalil National Stadium, Kuala Lumpur
Man of the Match	Mohamadou Sumareh (Pahang)
Referee	Zulkarnain Zakaria
Attendance	43,512
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Football match

The 2018 Malaysia FA Cup final was the 29th final of the Malaysia FA Cup, the Malaysia football cup competition.^[1] Pahang won the cup after defeating Selangor 2–0.

Background

The final was played on 7 July 2018 at Bukit Jalil National Stadium.

Route to the final

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.

Selangor

Round	Opposition	Score
First Round	Bye
Second Round	MOF (a)	3–0
Third Round	Terengganu (a)	3–1
Quarter-finals	Kuala Lumpur (1st leg) (a)	3–0
Quarter-finals	Kuala Lumpur (2nd leg) (h)	0–3
Semi-final	PKNS (1st leg) (h)	4–0
Semi-final	PKNS (2nd leg) (a)	1–1
Key: (h) = Home venue; (a) = Away venue.

Pahang

Round	Opposition	Score
First Round	Bye
Second Round	ATM (h)	2–1
Third Round	Kedah (h)	1–0
Quarter-finals	Johor Darul Ta'zim (1st leg) (h)	0–0
Quarter-finals	Johor Darul Ta'zim (2nd leg) (a)	3–0
Semi-final	PKNP (1st leg) (h)	1–1
Semi-final	PKNP (2nd leg) (a)	2–1
Key: (h) = Home venue; (a) = Away venue.

Ticket allocation

Each club received an allocation of 80,000 tickets; 30,750 tickets for Selangor, 30,750 tickets for Pahang and 18,500 tickets for online purchase.

Rules

The final was played as a single match. If tied after regulation, extra time and, if necessary, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner.

Match

Details

7 July 2018

21:00 (UTC+8)

Selangor	0–2	Pahang
		23' Azam Azih 62' (pen.) Patrick Cruz

Bukit Jalil National Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Attendance: 43,512

Referee: Zulkarnain Zakaria

Selangor

Pahang


GK	1	Khairulazhan Khalid
RB	5	Amirul Ashraf
CB	13	Razman Roslan	75'
CB	14	Alfonso de la Cruz	61'
LB	3	K. Kannan		89'
RM	17	Amri Yahyah (c)	28'
CM	8	Saiful Ridzuwan
LM	20	Syahmi Safari		71'
RW	30	D. Kugan		57'
CF	10	Rufino Segovia
LW	18	Ilham Armaiyn
Substitutes:
DF	2	A. Namathevan
MF	4	Abdul Halim Zainal
MF	6	Evan Dimas		57'
FW	12	Azamuddin Akil		71'
MF	19	Joseph Kalang Tie		89'
GK	21	Norazlan Razali
DF	24	Muhd Syukri Azman
Head Coach:
Nazliazmi Nasir


GK	1	Helmi Eliza
RB	2	Matthew Davies (c)
CB	12	Bunyamin Umar
CB	24	Muslim Ahmad
LB	14	Faisal Rosli		86'
RM	26	Mohamadou Sumareh		90'
CM	21	Safuwan Baharudin
CM	20	Azam Azih	80'
LM	9	Norshahrul Idlan
CF	10	Patrick Cruz		72'
CF	29	Austin Amutu
Substitutes:
DF	4	R. Dinesh
MF	7	Faisal Halim		90'
MF	8	Wan Zaharulnizam		72'
DF	16	Zubir Azmi		86'
GK	22	Remezey Che Ros
MF	23	Salomon Raj
FW	28	Kogileswaran Raj
Head Coach:
Dollah Salleh

Man of the Match:
Mohamadou Sumareh (Pahang)

Match rules

90 minutes
30 minutes of extra time if necessary
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used

References

^ [1] Malaysia 2018

[1] [1] Malaysia 2018